单词 | balti |
释义 | baltin.2 Cookery. A style of cooking influenced by the cuisine of northern Pakistan, comprising highly spiced dishes usually served in wide, round-bottomed, metal pans and accompanied by nan bread. Also: food or a dish in this style. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > [noun] > style of cooking > other styles nouvelle cuisine1774 churrasco1917 kaiseki1920 Nonya1969 Cal-Mex1973 cuisine minceur1975 minceur1981 balti1982 1982 Heathan (Balsall Heath, Birmingham) July 8/1 (advt.) Specialists in kebab, tikah, balti meats tandoori chicken and all kinds of curry. 1984 Curry Mag. Winter 29/1 Can anyone tell me what Balti is?.. Some unusual dishes on the menu are Curried Quail, Balti chicken or meat. 1990 Independent (Nexis) 24 Feb. 32 A lot of police..got to know about ‘going for a balti’ while training in Birmingham. 1993 Times 26 June (Mag.) 35/2 I've eaten some passable, if crude, South American stuff and supped off the true Brum vernacular, which is the Kashmiri balti—only in this city do you get a table laid with a metre-long bread. 2000 Evening Post (Bristol) (Electronic ed.) 4 Nov. Not that students have to eat curry before a monster drinking session. They can, of course, grab a balti during and after, all equally satisfying. Compounds C1. General attributive. ΚΠ 1984 Curry Mag. Winter 29/1 Can anyone tell me what Balti is?.. Some unusual dishes on the menu are Curried Quail, Balti chicken or meat. 1987 Good Food Guide 1988 137 Highlights are the superb balti dishes, cooked and served in blackened iron pans. 1994 Independent on Sunday 7 May (Review Suppl.) 53/1 The mushrooming of cheap and cheerful balti restaurants in and around Birmingham, producing unsophisticated one-pot cooking. 2000 Mirror (Electronic ed.) 16 Nov. The local community, proud of their title as the birthplace of Balti cooking, asked that road signs be written in Punjabi. C2. balti house n. a restaurant specializing in this style of cooking. ΚΠ 1985 Yellow Pages: Birmingham South West 320/1 Balti house Punjab Paradise sweet centre & restaurant... Specialising in balti dishes. 1990 Guardian 24 Feb. (Weekend Suppl.) 19/3 Balti houses in Sparkbrook will let a full couple out the door for well under £10. 1998 P. Chapman 1999 Good Curry Guide 51 Elephant or Family Nans are offered at Balti houses to share to scoop your food up with. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online December 2021). Baltiadj.n.1 A. adj. Of or relating to Baltistan, a Himalayan region of Kashmir (now in northern Pakistan), its inhabitants, or their language. ΚΠ 1845 Encycl. Metrop. XXV. 587/1 Báltí or Beltistán..i.e. the Beltí country, lies to the South-East of Badakhshán. 1866 H. H. G. Austen in Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 35: Pt. i 233 This Vocabulary of Kashmiri and Balti words was compiled..in leasure [sic] hours of rainy days. 1899 F. E. S. Adair Summer in High Asia ii. 23 The Balti coolie is a curious-looking being. 1948 D. Diringer Alphabet iv. 299 Specimen from the Balti script. 1989 Life Feb. 127/1 Below lie miles of untracked ridges and gullies, leading at last to a Balti village. B. n.1 1. The Tibetan language of Baltistan. ΚΠ 1866 H. H. G. Austen in Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 35: Pt. i 233 (heading) A vocabulary of English, Balti and Kashmiri. 1909 G. A. Grierson Ling. Surv. India III. i. 32 The Tibetan dialect of the province of Purik forms a link between Baltī and Ladakhī... Baltī is the prevailing language all over Baltistan. 1977 D. Murphy Where Indus is Young ii. 55 There is no resemblance whatever between Balti and any of the languages spoken in Pakistan. 1992 Internat. Encycl. Linguistics I. 192/2 Balti: 400,000 speakers reported in 1986, mainly in north-eastern Pakistan. 2. A native or inhabitant of Baltistan. ΚΠ 1875 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 4 327 The author also noticed the Dards.., and three Thibetan peoples, known as the Champas, the Ladakhis, and the Baltis. 1899 F. E. S. Adair Summer in High Asia ii. 23 The population of Dras is a mixed one, consisting of Baltis, a few Ladakis, Dards, and a sect known as Brōkpa. 1948 D. Diringer Alphabet iv. 300 Nowadays, the educated Baltis employ mainly the Persian-Arabic alphabet. 1989 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 237/1 The Balti have spread farther down the Indus Valley and have adopted Islām. 2000 Omaha (Nebraska) World-Herald (Nexis) 19 Apr. (Living) 45 Originally Buddhist, the Baltis converted to Islam during the Mogul insurgence around 1580. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.21982adj.n.11845 |
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